It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

I is for Integrity, be honest with yourself and others.

Screw the shops

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.

Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

One loving thought can change everything.

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

I've just returned from my daughter's Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl - and she was perfect. And, even better, she still considers boys to be made of kryptonite.